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Honoré Daumier

"Faut-y faire une lettre pour l’attendrir?.../ Attendrir un huissier!..vous n’êtes donc pas français, mon brave homme?...." , plate 5 from Les Gens de Justice

April 17, 1845
Lithograph
43.2 × 35.6 cm (17 × 14 in)

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